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Dr Anil Kumar Singh

Dr Anil Kumar Singh

Designation : Scientist E

Education : Ph.D. (Life sciences), Bose Institute, Kolkata, India Post-Doctoral Fellow, NECKER Institute (INSERM), Paris, France

ID. No.: 1225

Contact Details: +91-(0)376-2372951 +91-8876954752

Email id : 1010anil@gmail.com, anil@neist.res.in


Research Interest

  • Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) : Mechanistic, Therapeutics and Diagnostics

Research Opportunity/Student Corner

  • Motivated students (with their own fellowship or looking for fellowship) are encouraged to contact with their Biodata and with one page of research interests.
  • M. Sc. students can apply for their six months dissertation works in our lab.

Patents

  • Singh AK, Sen T, Gogoi P, Neog K (2021) Synergistic composition of novel quinazolinone compounds with rifampicin to potentiate efficacy against Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Patent application no. 202111054718, National filling date: 26th November 2021).
  • Singh AK, Devi MV, Maurya AW, Borra S, Hati Boruah JL, Borkotoky L. (2023) Synergistic composition of 2-Amino benzofuran derivative with rifampicin to potentiate efficacy against Mycobacterium abscessus(Patent application no. 202311045256, National filling date: 5th July 2023).
  • Singh AK, Roy MK, Gogoi P, Kayastha N, Borah B, Bhattacharjee A, Sarma S, Hati Boruah JL (2026) Tetrazolo-quinozoline compound as bacterial Conjugation Inhibitor (Patent app. no. 202611001929, National filing date: 7th January 2026)

Projects Affiliated

  • CSIR
  • CSIR-Open Source Drug Discovery, CSIR-OSDD
  • DST-SERB
  • DBT
  • Oil India Limited

List of Publications (List of 5 Most Significant Publications )

  • Devi MV and Singh AK* (2023) Delineation of transcriptional regulators involve in biofilm formation cycle of Mycobacterium abscessus. Gene, 882, 147644. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gene.2023.147644 . (Citation:6)
  • Sarma S, Bhattacharjee A, Devi MV, Panyang PP, Singh AK* (2023) Long-term adaptation of ParA, RelE/ParE partition system, replication protein and phage proteins encoding low-cost plasmids of Escherichia species isolated from diarrheic children of North East of India. Journal of Applied Microbiology. https://doi.org/10.1093/jambio/lxac065 . (Citation:0)
  • Deka B, Suri M, Sarma S, Devi MV, Bora A, T Sen, Dihingia A, Pahari P, Singh AK* (2022) Potentiating the intracellular killing of Staphylococcus aureus by dihydroquinazoline analogues as NorA efflux pump inhibitor. Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry, 54 (2022) 116580. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bmc.2021.116580 . (Citation:09)
  • Sarma S, Deka B, Panyang PP, Singh AK* (2021) Identification of Arg32Ser, His92Tyr and Leu147Phe novel mutations in chromosomally mediated β lactamase SHV and in silico characterization to understand their substrate activity imparting resistance. Journal of Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics Sep 25;1-15. https://doi: 10.1080/07391102.2021.1978321. (Citation:2)

Awards and Fellowships

  • Marie-Curie Fellowship (MC-IIF) (2009-2011)
  • AXA Postdoctoral fellowship, Paris, France (2008-2009)
    (AXA Research fund selects 30 young researchers from all over world)
  • Indo-French (CEFIPRA-IFCPAR) Postdoctoral fellowship (2007-2008)
  • CSIR-UGC-National Eligibility Test (NET) (July, 2001)